Monday, April 29, 2013

De-stash Challenge...April

I joined Ana and Lynda's Destash Challenge this year.....and have done remarkably well. I've made scarves and cozies and beds and such.

This month, I was preoccupied with end of the year work stuff and other things so I didn't de-stash as much as usual.In fact, I ADDED stash by going on a quick trip to a yarn store in Mississippi with a co-worker. It was SUCH fun. The drive was a quick 30 minutes and we had a blast. After shopping, we had a really good lunch and headed back home with our goodies... Some of this will be made into finger-less gloves, some into a scarf and some into who knows what...

I'd also been looking for a particular yarn for about a year...and looking HARD for well over 6 months. I finally found it on Ravelry but it took an additional 2 months to find someone willing to sell it to me.The yarn is so lovely, it was worth the effort...I can't imagine why this lovely yarn would be discontinued!

Then I found these on sale 50% off and couldn't pass up the color....teal, light or dark is seriously the BEST color!

Then I bought some more yarn to create this shawl for our trip to Cancun. I thought it would be fun to make this instead of a toy for my "drop" this month. I left it for the lady who did our house keeping every day. Dean wrote her a sweet note in Spanish....we saw it on her cart later that morning when we checked out.

I did manage to make 3 more pink scarves for the Pink Scarf Project. Since I am making so many of them, I am only buying yarn I find on sale. I have now made 8 scarves! My goal is 12 so I have 4 left to make before October.I made 2 of this light and lacy one. This yarn is incredibly soft and was perfect for the open weave. I love the pretty fringe.

I only found 1 skein of this yarn so made a long, chunky scarf out of it. It is also very soft but it looks best doubled and tied close to the neck........

I also made another cell phone case...I seem to making these constantly....

Going to a yarn store is like a kid going to a candy store.......but the good thing is that you don't rot your teeth out....and you get to create pretty things.......

6 comments:

I am sooo glad you found that yarn you were looking for :-)Ohh, I have lots of scarf knitting to catch up on .... my goal was 6 by October and I'm still on number 2 !!!I love the teal shawl, I'm sure the lady was super excited .... I'd have been :-)